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A technique for salvaging a critical internal mammary artery bypass graft damaged during resternotomy
Sridhar Rathinam1, Ramesh Gohil, James Galea
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 27, 2005
Abstract:
Resternotomy in the presence of a patent internal mammary artery graft poses an addition hazard to the reoperation. We describe a situation in which the patent mammary artery graft to the left anterior descending artery was severed and retracted during sternal reentry for an aortic valve replacement. We illustrate a simple technique for restoring the blood supply using a coronary artery shunt.
